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ing day and in view of the important questions 

 ooming up for discussion, it is anticipated that 

 there will be a full attendance. It is further 

 anticipated that the trustees will name the date 

 and place of the next annual meeting. The work 

 of the past year will be reviewed, and questions 

 to come up at the next meeting will also receive 

 consideration. 



Hardwood Manufactureis' Annual 



There has been a change in the office force of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States. H. G. Hoover, who during this 

 year left the Griffon H. Deeves Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chicago, 111., to become assistant secre- 

 tary, has resigned. Mr. Hoover is now asso- 

 ciated with the new lumber firm. The Strate- 

 meyer Lumber Company, and will devote Ms 

 time to the office and selling end of the busi- 

 ness. 



The association will again hold its annual con- 

 vention at Cincinnati at Hotel Sinton. This 

 will be the eleventh annual convention and the 

 fourth consecutive year that it has been held 

 at Cincinnati. W. E. DeLaney. president of the 

 association, is determined to make this the big- 

 gest gathering oit lumber manufacturers ever 

 held, and no pains or expense are to be spared 

 to achieve that end. It is expected that the 

 registration will be close to one thousand and a 

 good program will be arranged for the enter- 

 tainment of the delegates. The convention will 

 last only two days — Feb. 4 and 5 — but the day 

 previous to the convention will be a busy one. 

 as all of the prominent members will be on hand 

 a day ahead and will be busy in committee meet- 

 ings so that no time will be lost when the tneet- 

 ing convenes. 



"Doings" at Chicago Club 



On Saturday, Nov. 30, the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Chicago pulled off one of its surpassing enter- 

 tainments, the feature of which was the Dear- 

 born Chorus. This chorus' is famous in semi- 

 professional musical circles and is composed of 

 twenty well-trained male voices, who have es- 

 tablished an enviable reputation for their ability 

 to produce harmony of the most harmonious kind. 

 These entertainments are becoming decided fea- 

 tures in the Chicago club, and are calling forth 

 a fair response from the members. It is to be 

 hoped, however, that the members will more 

 strikingly show their appreciation at future en- 

 tertainments. 



The entertainment committee is now working 

 on a glee club entertainment which will be given 

 strictly by club talent. The committee in charge, 

 composed of W. A. Easer, Robert Sullivan and 

 F. B. McMullen is holding regular rehearsals, 

 which take place every Friday in the club rooms 

 at S :30 p. m. They are anxious to secure as 

 many voices as possible from among the members. 



Statement of Manufacturing Lumbermen's 

 Underwriters 



The last annual statement of the Manufactur- 

 ing Lumbermen's Underwriters, Harry Rankin & 

 Co.. attorney. Kansas City. Mo., shows that or- 

 ganization to be in a decidedly healthy and grow- 

 ing condition. The company was organized with 

 eleven members Xov. 1, 1S9S. The membership 

 shown in the last statement was 318 and the 

 present membership is 359. The insurance in 

 force Nov. 1. 1911, was $25,265, .525. and on 

 Nov. 1, 1912, it was §27,535,778. The aggre- 

 gate of the number of small losses reported after 

 the issuance of the last statement amounted to 

 ?240.17S.39. Losses in process of adjustment 

 at time of statement were $35,559.75. Total 

 losses paid since the organization of the com- 

 pany aggregate $2,242,505.44. 



Lamb-Fish Representative at Rochester 



Th» Lamb-Fish Lumber Company of Charles- 

 ton. Miss., announces that its representative, 

 Clyde E. .Jones, is now located at Rochester, N. 

 Y., where he will maintain his headquarters for 



Ihree or four months. Mr. Jones w^ill work 

 the eastern territory with the express purpose of 

 pushing red gum lumber. The Lamb-Fish com- 

 pany expresses itself as quite confident that 

 there is a good field in the East for placing a 

 considerable quantity of this stuff. 



New Memphis Concern 



W. L. Crenshaw, for a number of years a 

 member of the firm of Crenshaw & Cathey, and 

 later president of the Bellgrade Lumber Com- 

 pany, has, with F. E. Gary, general manager of 

 the Baker Lumber Company, purchased the saw- 

 mill, timberland holdings and lumber stock of 

 the Norton Hardwood Lumber Company, at 

 Ritchie. Miss. The consideration is understood 

 to have been .$75,000 and the new owners have 

 formed .the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company, 

 Inc., which is capitalized at $50,000. The new 

 company has already assumed control of the 

 properties and is operating the mill at Ritchie. 

 It is in charge of E. M. Schulte, who is expe- 

 rienced in that line, having Iteen formerly con- 

 nected with the J. W. Thompson Lumber Com- 

 pany and later with the Penrod-Abbott interests. 



W. L. CRENSHAW, CRENSHAW-GARY LUM- 

 BER C0MP.4NY, RITCHIE, MISS. 



Seven thousand acres of timberlands were in- 

 cluded in the transfer. Mr. Crenshaw has had 

 no active connection with the lumber business 

 for the past few months, aside from his service 

 as president of the Memphis Hardwood Flooring 

 Company. Mr. Gary will continue as manager 

 of the Baker Lumber Company and his rela- 

 tions with the new firm will not affect in any 

 way those with the company of which he has 

 been general manager for a number of years. 



New Arkansas 'Veneer Company 

 The American '^'eneer and Specialty Company 

 is the style of a new concern which has recently 

 started business at Newport. Ark. This concern 

 is well e<iuipped as to plant and capital and it 

 expects to manufacture an extensive line of 

 gum, Cottonwood and tupelo veneers. A portion 

 of this stock will be made into specialties such 

 as basket stock, box shook, excelsior, etc. 



Forrest City Company Loses Case 



In the latter part of 1910 G. M. Sims of Mem- 

 phis, Tenn.. and Proctor, Ark., contracted with 

 the Forrest City Box Company of Forrest City, 

 .\rk., for 5,000.000 feet .of log run gum, 24 

 inches and up wide and guaranteed thirt.v-flve 

 per cent red. The price was $13 t. o. b. Proc- 

 tor. The Forrest City company accepted 1,500,-. 

 nCiO feet of the order but in May, 1911, refused 

 to accept the remainder, .\fter attempting ad- 



justment of the difficulty, Mr. Sims took the 

 case to court. On Nov. 22 a decision was handed 

 down at Little Rock, the unique point in which 

 was tluit settlement must be made for damages 

 to the extent of the difference between the cost 

 of raw material (logs) plus the cost of produc- 

 tion, and the contract price on material not 

 accepted and paid for. 



The complainant proved that the value of the 

 stumpage to him was $3.50 per M and the cost 

 of logging and milling was $7.50. Thus the 

 total cost was $11.00. The decision awarded 

 Mr. Sims $2 per thousand on the remainder of 

 the contract. This with a judgment on stock 

 accepted made the total award $8,300. 



Incorporation of Clark L. Poole & Co. 



Clark L. Poole & Co., Chicago, announce that 

 the former co-partnership composed of Clark L. 

 Poole and Edward C. Cronwall has been incorpo- 

 rated under the same style as the partnership 

 carried. The object of the incorporation is to 

 perpetuate the business in the interest of the 

 company's clients and to strengthen the organ- 

 ization by the admission of several men to the 

 firm as officers and directors. New members of 

 the company will be A. M. Coit, Kenneth D. 

 Steere, Frank R. Barnes, H. C. Barroll, Horace 

 C. Poole, Harold O. Cronwall. All of these gen- 

 tlemen have either been with the company for 

 several years or closely connected through other 

 companies. D. H. Bitner, H. J. Elliott and 

 R. H. Coit have also been admitted as stock- 

 holders. 



The management of the incorporation will be 

 under the control of Clark L. Pooie and Edward 

 C. Cronwall, whose financial interest in the 

 business is not affected by this change in the 

 form of business organization. The officers now 

 are : Clark L. Poole, president ; Edward C. Cron- 

 wall, vice-president ; R. S. Poole, secretary, and 

 Harry O. Cronwall, treasurer. The other vice- 

 presidents are : H. C. Barroll, A. M. Coit, Ken- 

 neth D. Steere. and Frank R. Barnes. 



Clark L. Poole c& Co. have purchased and sold 

 to their clients about $60,000,000 of timber- 

 lands bonds during the last nine years. During 

 this period they have had no principal or inter- 

 est defaulted and no loss has ever been sus- 

 tained in connection with any of the bond issues. 



Buys Jackson Plant 



It is announced from .Jackson, Tenn.. that the 

 Tennessee Hardwood Lumber Company of Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., has purchased the sawmill plant 

 and timber interests of John Rose of Knoxville. 

 Tenn. The consideration involved is $35,000. 

 The new plant will be operated in connection 

 with the Nashville offices of the Tennessee Hard- 

 wood Lumber Compan.v. 



Mr. Rose owned several hundred acres of tim- 

 berland in Crockett county and had just com- 

 pleted a large sawmill near the Birmingham & 

 Western Railroad depot, which road runs through 

 the land in Crockett county. Mr. Rose com- 

 pleted the sale the latter part of Novemlwr. 



National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation Represented at Boston Weight 

 Hearing 



At a hearing of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission in connection with its investigation 

 of the alleged irregularities and discrepancies 

 in the weighing of freight, held at Boston, Nov. 

 25, before Special Examiner I'routy, the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 was represented by its traffic manager, W. S. 

 Phippen. who presented evidence covering some 

 fifty shipments on which incorrect weights had 

 been assessed. The evidence showed that in 

 assessing the weights of these shipments, errors 

 in calculation had been made, weighing figures 

 had been transposed, and the wrong tare weights 

 had been inserted. Several instances were cited 

 where investigation failed to develop that the 

 cars had been actually weighed, notwithstanding 

 the gross, tare and net weight figures had been 



